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TIL Lorillard Tobacco Company used to hand out Newport cigarettes to black children in playgrounds

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1B74 TIL that Astronomers Have Spotted Oldest and Most Distant Galaxy Ever Observed at 30 Billion Light Years Away
EgW17 TIL Alexander the Great had a Hindu Guru who accompanied his army on their return to Persia. After he died via self immolation the army held a drinking contest in his honor, resulting in 42 people dying from alcohol poisoning, including the winner, who drank 13 litres of unmixed wine
8exbV TIL the Welsh celebrate Beaujolais Day, a toast to the first wine of the season made from the first harvest of grapes in the Beaujolais region of France.
rJyo TIL that if you replaced the sun with a ball of gerbils of equal mass, the Earth would fry because they generate more heat energy than the sun per equivalent amount of mass
b6jVa TIL in 1986, 18-month-old "Baby Jessica" fell down a narrow well and was trapped upside-down for 58 hours